Managing conflict is the critical success factor for families that share business or other assets. Understanding how to work with inherent conflict in family business can unlock the potential to achieve goals, as well as [...]

Join FEX in a virtual conversation with Blair Trippe, Managing Partner of Continuity Family Business Consulting and Wendy Sage-Hayward, MA, FEA, in which we will discuss how to approach both active conflict—when families fight—and passive conflict—when families get stuck, unable to make important decisions in a timely manner. Participants will leave understanding why conflicts in families that own and manage companies and/or share assets are so common, and why failing to understand and manage conflict poses such a great threat to both the enterprise and the family.

Private event for NYU students.

Deconstructing Conflict in Family Business In Enterprising Families, Even if You “Get Along” You Still Have to “Get” Conflict Managing conflict is the critical success factor for families that share ownership and management of business [...]

Poorly managed family conflict is the biggest threat to family business; it impacts both the business performance and important family relationships.  Learning to manage this unique type of conflict is the most critical success factor for families that share business or other assets.  Trusted advisors can learn how to help their client families de-escalate and resolve situations, preserve family harmony and, in doing so, strengthen their own professional relationship with the family.  Understanding how to work with family business power structures and the conflicts inherent in the overlapping systems of shared family enterprise will enhance your ability to help your clients achieve their goals—and protect and enrich lasting family relationships.  
 This webinar will help you understand your client’s passive conflict (getting stuck) and active conflict (fighting) so you can better advise your client families. You’ll leave better able to create lasting agreements for your clients as they work to manage the inherent conflict in family enterprise.

Poorly managed family conflict is the biggest threat to family business; it impacts both the business performance and important family relationships.  Learning to manage this unique type of conflict is the most critical success factor for families that share business or other assets. Participants will leave understanding why conflicts in families that own and manage companies and/or share assets are so common, and why failing to understand and manage conflict poses such a great threat to both the enterprise and the family.